On 11-11-03 06:26 PM, Doug Young wrote:
>> Plusses:
> - eSata to support external disks (currently through a thermaltake
> BlackX, not immediately necessary). If nonexistent, I can buy a
> PCIE->eSata.
Despite my long work on IDE and SATA in the kernel,
I'm now getting rather bull-ish on USB3.0 interfaces instead.
These allow hubs for large expansion capability, and are fast
enough and simple enough to make eSATA a lot less necessary.
Port-multipliers (the eSATA equivalent of a USB3 hub) are poorly
supported in Linux, a very hit and (mostly) miss proposition.
USB3 stuff generally "just works", though it does still have the
occasional toothing pain.
Cheers